John Michael Cooper is Professor of Music at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. His scholarly career includes, most recently, seventy world-premiere editions (in sixty volumes) of music by Florence B. Price published with G. Schirmer and ten world-premiere editions of music by Margaret Bonds published with Hildegard Publishing Company; he is the author of  Margaret Bonds: “The Montgomery Variations” and Du Bois “Credo,” to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2022, and has given talks concerning Price and Bonds on both sides of the Atlantic.